. Official proceedings . Ph >>u 5 be. >, 5 ^ S ^o o 5 U o ^ PL, ^ a ii^ CO o bo New Uses for Steel. 233 United States Reclamation Service has used both forms of steelsheet piling in numerous installations; at Belle Fourche, SouthDakota; the Avalon Dam, Carlsbad, New Mexico; the Truckee-Carson Dam, Derby, Nevada, etc. Figure 11 shows two of the nine piers for the new bridgebeing built by the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad across theMississippi River at Clinton, Iowa, in which 1,160 tons of UnitedStates Steel Sheet Piling, 12 40 lbs., were used in 30 and 40foot lengths to form cofferda
. Official proceedings . Ph >>u 5 be. >, 5 ^ S ^o o 5 U o ^ PL, ^ a ii^ CO o bo New Uses for Steel. 233 United States Reclamation Service has used both forms of steelsheet piling in numerous installations; at Belle Fourche, SouthDakota; the Avalon Dam, Carlsbad, New Mexico; the Truckee-Carson Dam, Derby, Nevada, etc. Figure 11 shows two of the nine piers for the new bridgebeing built by the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad across theMississippi River at Clinton, Iowa, in which 1,160 tons of UnitedStates Steel Sheet Piling, 12 40 lbs., were used in 30 and 40foot lengths to form cofferdams 14 feet wide by 60 feet was bought for three cofferdams only; the piling waspulled and re-driven twice each for the remainder at an averagecost of about 18 cents per foot. In the near pier it will benoted that two lines of steel piling has been used after the fash-ion of ordinary wooden cofferdam construction. The engineersspeedily found, however, that a single wall of steel piling wasamply sufficient, and that the few
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